When underdog pushes top dog

The third Modi govt has quickly moved away from dismissing all Congress ideas as unimaginative and is now implementing several of them. Think poll-bound Haryana and Maharashtra

We often use situations and metaphors from cricket to explain political complexities. This, however, is the season of the Olympics and the Euro, so football and hockey would be more contextual. Therefore, let’s go ahead and see how a typical turn in a hockey or football game applies to the way national politics has moved, as indicated at the end of this Monsoon/Budget Session of Parliament.

Take your mind back to the hockey quarter-final where India played with 10 men against Great Britain for 42 minutes. Taking advantage of this, Great Britain attacked relentlessly as India struggled to